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Things I’m Thankful For

by Jordy Greenblatt

  • My loving family, except my meddling half brother Steve
  • A warm fire on a cold day
  • Cuddles from my golden doodle
  • My mom’s 5 spice pumpkin pie recipe
  • Steve’s weakness for 5 spice pumpkin pie
  • A warm bed at the end of an exhausting day
  • The smell of freshly raked leaves
  • Steve’s childlike gullibility
  • The first snow flurry before winter really starts
  • My mom’s tradition of writing everyone’s initials in whipped cream on their pie slice, thus leaving no ambiguity about who will be eating which piece
  • The guests that she then greets, leaving the pie unattended for a few minutes
  • The park where I used to play catch with my step dad before Steve came along
  • Online vendors of tasteless, odorless cyanide compounds

-Melissa Chiasson and Jordy Greenblatt

Records Listed in “Unbeeten: A Book of the World’s Most Incredible Beets”

by Lincoln Sedlacek

  • Reddest
  • Oldest
  • Largest (by volume)
  • Largest (by mass)
  • Most Difficult to Peel
  • Best Beet/Goat Cheese Pairing
  • Most Misshapen
  • Best in Class: Red Widow, Bloody Mary, Crimson Tide
  • Best Beet-Related Pun
  • Runniest (Boiled)
  • Runniest (Fresh)
  • Most Likely to Be Mistaken for a Radish
  • Best Borscht
  • Longest Without Water
  • Most Closely Resembling Jesus
  • Sexiest

-Jordy Greenblatt, Lincoln Sedlacek, and Melissa Chiasson

Thesis Topics My Adviser Refused to Fund

by Jordy Greenblatt

  • Low Viscosity Solutions to the Maple Syrup Stain on My Good Jeans
  • A New Algorithm for Finishing That Level of Yoshi’s Island Where You Fight the Frog From Inside Its Stomach
  • Optimal Temperature for Serving Revenge
  • Random Walks in Large Open Domains Just to Get Some Air
  • An Upper Bound on the Number of Times I Can Hear the Question “Will This Be on the Final” Without Having a Breakdown
  • A Complete Characterization of Knots That I Learned the Hard Way Won’t Keep My Dog From Chasing After Squirrels
  • Solutions to Jay-Z’s Fourteenth and Ninety-Sixth Problems

Things That You Could Say Either Immediately After Taking Your Dog for Its First Walk or While Holding Your Dying Adolescent Son in Your Arms

by Lincoln Sedlacek

  • You were such a good boy. Yes you were.

Best Ghosts to Haunt Your House

by Lincoln Sedlacek

  • A woman who died the night before she appeared on “Iron Chef,” – she now spends every day making a gourmet dish that she cannot eat, or transport further than your kitchen table.
  • A guy who slipped on coffee that spilled from his “#1 Dad” mug and is always up for playing catch, building a treehouse, or talking to you after a rough day.
  • A man who committed suicide after his girlfriend left because he never did the dishes. Some nights you can still hear him beg her to come back as he loads the dishwasher, puts in some detergent, and turns it on.
  • A girl who died in a terrible fire and now unplugs the iron and turns off the oven whenever you forget to do so before leaving the house.
  • A puppy who spends most of his time in adorable, corporeal form, but who can’t eat, poop, pee, or leave dog hair all over your couch.
  • Jerry Garcia, who plays great music and provides many “Grateful Dead” pun opportunities.

-Jordy Greenblatt and Lincoln Sedlacek

Plots That Weren’t Quite Weird Enough for The Twilight Zone

by Lincoln Sedlacek

  • A woman’s phone keeps ringing on the day of her wedding, but whenever she answers there’s no one on the other end. Later a technician finds out the receiver was broken and the phone calls were from the catering company.
  • A college student wakes up to find that his apartment complex is empty and he’s the only person left. Then he remembers that the county fair is that day and everyone must be at the fairgrounds.
  • A man is afraid to leave his house because a strange van keeps parking just down the street. When he finally leaves, the guys in the van rob his house.
  • The passengers on a flight from St. Louis to Houston travel through some unusual turbulence, only to find that when they land, it’s twenty minutes later than their estimated time of arrival.
  • A year after an elderly man’s mysterious disappearance, a group of kids claim to hear his voice. It turns out the man was dead and the kids were just a bunch of fucking liars.
  • A woman has plastic surgery and ends up looking like herself, just with bigger boobs.

-Jordy Greenblatt, Lincoln Sedlacek, and Melissa Chiasson

Outlaws of the Mild West

by Lincoln Sedlacek

  • Saloon Door-Slammin’ Sal
  • Cliff “The Cow Tipper” Madrow
  • Doc Holliday-Drinkin’ Dave
  • Owen the One-Time Offender
  • Sammy Spittoon-Spillin’ Sparrow
  • Hard-to-Depict-on-a-Wanted-Poster Harry

PIAOR’s Three Favorite States

by Lincoln Sedlacek

  • Solid
  • Liquid
  • North Dakota

Great Icebreakers

by Melissa Chiasson

  • Hammer
  • Heat
  • Salt
  • Brute force
  • Ice Pick
  • Saw
  • “Want to see a weird rash?”

Things I Listed Under My Main Accomplishments on My First Annual Self-Evaluation

by Lincoln Sedlacek

  • Actively participated in new employee orientation, asking engaging questions like, “Can you talk a bit more about the company dress code?” and “So, no banana hammocks, then?”
  • Was first employee to attend combined employee orientation and sexual-harassment training
  • Completed break room coffee machine training in under thirty seconds
  • Cleaned up first attempt at using the coffee machine in the break room in under thirty minutes
  • Networked within my department by going on dates with all female employees in first two weeks
  • Went on date with my manager, during which she told me my performance was subpar
  • Was second employee to attend combined employee orientation and sexual-harassment training
  • Refrained from rolling eyes more than three times per day
  • Learned how to misrepresent statistics in order to enhance company image in grant proposals
  • Completed eight pages of a grant proposal, a number 200% greater than the number of grants I was projected to finish this year
  • Learned to assign action items in a confident enough tone that nobody thought to check whether I had any myself
  • Refrained from punching Xander from accounting right in his stupid face
  • Brought donuts to yearly evaluation (note to reader: I actually forgot to do this)
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